A Silent Call to the EDSA Generation

History books and heroes carried an EDSA that was about setting things right in the Philippines, and maybe some of them had the right idea, but mostly, the context of that demonstration was misunderstood.

This is an article not to serve the peacemakers, or the warmongers. At the core of this, is an article that sets to explain why both of them are wrong…

 

A Comprehensive Proposal for an EDSA Reform (edited)

EDSA will no longer be about alternative personalities, or parties. It will no longer be about dependence on the individual. It will be something better, more comprehensive. Now you will have something to fight for.

 

The Misdirected Energies of Mr. Lenin’s Democracy

They were freedom fighters, at a time when the whole world was absorbed into the American economic empire. They were romanticized, and championed. Even today, one of their own, the Argentinian Ernesto Guevarra, is still hailed as a popular icon. So how could they fail? Where did they go wrong? With this, I present the second installment of my series, “Searching for Democracy”

 

Inertia: Sustaining the EDSA Movement

No, no, no, Arroyo will not listen… but we will howl nevertheless. In the two years she remains in power, we will howl her in the streets, howl her in the courts, and howl her out of office. We will howl like mad, and make all of government tremble with fear…

 

Gloria Arroyo and the Hitler Complex

We are forever frustrated by the continued existence of Gloria Arroyo as President. But would you have stood up to Hitler’s Germany? And can you really stand up to Arroyo’s Philippines?

 

A Celebration of Love

Have you ever looked in the eyes of a mother, after giving birth to her child? If you stood close to her when she was in labor—the one without anesthetics, the natural labor—you would see her heaping curses at everyone. She would be screaming in absolute pain; at one point, she would experience emotional extremes of ups and downs. And when finally you hear the gentle, faint cry coming out of her womb, and watch child and mother, caught in an emotional and spiritual embrace, look into her eyes. And you will see why.

 

Awakenings

I can’t explain it. It was a revelation based on logic, and I had that idea even before. So why did I suddenly feel so much emotional upheaval, as if I was being shaken by a great thunder in my heart? I was euphoric for no reason; I understood the answer mentally days before, but I felt as if I had discovered the answer I had searched for all my life.

 

Finding Our Good Samaritans

Tirelessly, and with no reward in sight, they will still work to care for people. They come off as traitors, and fools. How could they love people with so much hate? How could they give their lives to people who would readily sacrifice it to murder innocents? “I don’t care how many lives he’s killed. So long as he’s here, he’s my patient.” “God taught us to love everyone. Even those who hurt us.” “We are equal before God. Everyone deserves a dignified life.”

 

Happily Ever After

We live in a cynical world. In our search for Love and Happiness, we found only pain and suffering. In our labors to find the goodness of the human heart, we have found only deeper and deeper levels of cruelty.   But there is much to Love, and therefore be happy, in this world…

 

Suffer Love

We look for signs of love in flowers, red roses, and sweet words.  But the real sign of Love can be found in her tears, and her callused hands, and her tired sighs…